Word origin: Terbium was named for the village of Ytterby, Sweden (as was yttrium, erbium and ytterbium). You may like Scientists create ultra-tough copper alloy that is stronger than steel and ...

A new luminescent sensor can detect terbium, a valuable rare earth element, from complex environmental samples like acid mine waste. The sensor, developed by researchers at Penn State, takes ...

Penn State researchers have developed a new sensor to find the valuable rare earth element terbium in samples drawn from the environment such as acid mine waste. Terbium is one of the rarest of ...

Something which offers a testable claim about how resources are running out. They seem to be saying that terbium should have run out last year: so that means no more compact fluorescent light ...

Geng Deng relates how terbium, a garden-variety lanthanide, has found its way into our daily lives owing to its green phosphorescence. It may be one of the rarer rare-earth elements in the Earth's ...

A new luminescent sensor can detect terbium, a valuable rare earth element used in smart phone displays, from complex environmental samples like acid mine waste. A new luminescent sensor can ...